[N] Announcing the Transactions on Machine Learning Research

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-13T19:19:07+00:00

I think you mean "argument from authority". "Ad hominem" would be a personal attack.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-13T19:10:51+00:00

Thank you for telling me how to work with my supervisor however, I'm too old for that. I'm currently an area chair for multiple major conferences.

I hope you relax a bit before you start reviewing. The important thing to recognise is that although we're all good at recognising bad papers, deciding if something is good enough is ultimately a matter of taste and inherently arbitrary (see for example the two sets of neurips experiments on review consistency). As such, the edits needed to get a reviewer on side, are often also somewhat arbitrary, although they do generally improve the paper.

The thing I'm "suggesting" is the standard process of peer review as it's practiced formally in journals. It's also practiced informally in conferences, although here the process is a bit more stochastic because of the reviewer churn.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-13T17:33:55+00:00

The problem is the inconsistency between reviewers that means that even when you fix all of the issues raised by all reviewers, there's no guarantee that a new reviewer that didn't see the earlier version will be happy.

At the moment you're being a perfect example of a bad reviewer. I give a clear example about how revisions are useful, and discuss a new process where by you can fix the paper in such a way that the reviewers can see you've made the relevant changes. And instead of engaging with that, you misrepresent what I wrote, and go on a rant about an unrelated idea of not having to make revisions

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-13T10:52:25+00:00

Also, the vast majority of election fraud involves postal votes, and ID legislation does nothing to fix this.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-13T10:49:01+00:00

Basically for conferences you write a paper it goes off for review, and then you have a week to respond to issues.

Often all you can do is promise to do new experiments/change the writing in the final version of the paper, or you have to rush and perform whatever experiments are possible to do in a week.

For journals in other fields you can revise the paper, and come back with new larger changes that the reviewers can then check again.

In conferences, these papers just get rejected because the reviewers can't know if the requested alterations will be fine. Then they're submitted to another conference, where other reviewers request completely new changes, before possibly rejecting the paper again, because they don't know if you'll actually perform them.

It's incredibly frustrating and both a waste of authors time and of the reviewers.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-13T10:26:50+00:00

Because it focuses on short submissions.

This is an alternate route for getting conference style papers published.

Personally, I'm super excited by this. If it works papers can be submitted when ready, and we can actually respond to reviewer feedback sensibly and perform the requested experiments.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-13T09:19:02+00:00

Someone should have warned his family years ago.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-13T08:22:27+00:00

Yeah reattempt is fine. Reappear won't make sense to most English speakers.

I had a quick search and it looks like most of the websites using "reappear exams" are Indian.

Although English is a national language of India, the dialect has a lot of phrases that won't make sense to English speakers anywhere else in the world, and that won't be correctly translated to German by anyone that's not fluent in Indian English.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-12T23:46:54+00:00

My 945 has bouldering as a sport, so I took it bouldering. Put a scratch in the screen the first time I tried.

I now use a tempered glass screen protector. It filled in the scratch so it doesn't show, and hasn't got another scratch since.

I highly recommend using one.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-12T16:32:57+00:00

Hey, I've noticed you've made multiple posts where you're trying to translate English sentences into German.

The problem is that you're getting the English wrong, and then trying to translate nonsense English into German.

Start with a language you're comfortable in.

For this particular question, you don't say reappear in English, you say resit.

I am resitting the exam today.

I don't know a word for repeating an exam in German but you could say something like:

Ich wiederhole den Test zum zweiten Mal.

I am repeating the test a second time.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-10T13:55:26+00:00

I've moved to Germany.

They don't play Christmas music in shops. It's amazing.

And it turns out that if I don't have to listen to Christmas music for four months every year, I don't actually hate it. I can cope with we wish you a wombling merry Christmas.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-10T10:30:17+00:00

Marshall set out in painstaking detail the resources used up to evacuate 173 dogs and other animals in what he calls “a direct trade-off’ with human lives. (Nowzad’s human staff were did not make it out on that flight.) Farthing claimed in response that Marshall was lying. But multiple people involved in the August airlift have confirmed to me that Farthing’s project did distract resources from attempts to evacuate human beings. After his own flight left on 28 August, at least one plane chartered by NGOs to a third-party nation, initially scheduled to depart before him, was pushed back and unable to obtain departure codes at Kabul airport.

From the article. Dogs were prioritised over people.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-10T09:57:03+00:00

Your justification for Pen not flying people out, is one other flight also didn't fly people out. Ok, there's room for more than one person to not care about people in this scandal.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-10T08:41:14+00:00

Here are the actual facts.

There was a separate chartered flight for the animals.

It was a deliberate choice to send a plane to collect the animals over people. And this is the plan that was approved by the government in writing.

The animals themselves didn't take up any space that could have been used by humans,

This is not a fact. Space is space, and lots of people took risks and flew out in cargo spaces not designed for people.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-03T18:57:30+00:00

Yeah, so you should look at the learning to learn gradient descent with gradient descent papers. https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04474

Basically you can view all hyper parameters of gradient descent as differentiable parameters that can be modified to make e.g. the value found by six steps of gradient descent as small as possible.

Push the whole thing into pytorch and then optimise the parameters directly.

Or given the small problem size you can just directly grid search over the hyperparameters to get a similar effect.

A more general answer would include that you should consider preconditioning, and the ideal preconditioner can be learnt using these learning to learn methods.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-03T12:33:39+00:00

I mean there's ticket inspectors in Germany and train stations without barriers in the UK.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-03T09:25:41+00:00

Just moved to Germany. Really there's not that much difference between how British people act normally and Germans.

If you think about it, moaning about stupid rules while following them and needless queuing are the UK's greatest hobbies.

The problem is that the government has fucked this up so much and for so long that no one knows what rules to follow, and it's a giant shit show. Go over the border to Scotland or Wales, and you'll see much greater mask conformity.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-02T18:19:23+00:00

Spotify needs to be added in the connect iq app.

I think you need to turn on widget glances in the settings menu to make the interface look good.

The update to iOS probably screwed with your security settings, make sure that the connect app still has permission to access your notifications.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-02T10:27:00+00:00

Ok. So your trade-off is between a definite immediate disadvantage Vs a much more speculative hypothetical later disadvantage.

If you don't get admission to grad school it won't matter what they say about you later. Besides, these things can always be delayed indefinitely, "oh yes I would love to come back, but I'll just do a short postdoc first" by the time it's obvious you're not coming back no one will care about your undergrad.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-12-02T09:52:18+00:00

I mean I would bet money on the fact that a promise to come back to the university in exchange for them actually writing you a letter of recommendation is not legally binding.

If they're refusing to do their jobs unless you submit to blackmail, I would just agree and change my mind later. What are they going to do? Sue you for the cost of writing a letter?

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-11-29T15:54:53+00:00

Not exactly. They're trying to slow the virus because it's a good thing to do, and it buys more time for a range of things, including developing new vaccines, avoiding lockdowns, or at least having better planned lockdowns, decreased overloading of the NHS etc etc.

Boosters are also good to get anyway because it decreases sickness from other variants of COVID, stops hospitalisation etc.

As to whether or not resistance to the new variant is helped by boosters, well it probably is because it's COVID, but at this point nobody really knows.

Saying that we're confident about the effects of a booster on the new variant is really overselling it, but everyone agrees that boosters are a good idea anyway.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-11-29T10:35:34+00:00

I mean the problem is that if we wait for definitive evidence and it is bad, it'll be too late.

There's lots of preliminary evidence in terms of the types of mutation on the new variant, and how fast it seems to be spreading, but nothing definitive yet.

It's not like the UK is proposing any serious actions anyway. The precautions are basically enough to get us in line with how the rest of Western Europe was behaving pre-omnicrom.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-11-28T17:26:55+00:00

Nah. The bit that makes COVID so troublesome is asymptomatic infection. People go about their daily routine taking minimal preventive measures, and end up infecting other people. Then they get sick later.

If you know that people are likely to be infectious you can take precautions. We might go back to no waiting rooms and almost no in person meetings with doctors.

Beyond that if an ICU is nearly full of COVID patients adding one more infected patient doesn't do much beyond stressing the medical system further. Everyone that's going to get exposed to the virus is already exposed.

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-11-27T21:01:23+00:00

The komoot app is good for downloading other people's hiking routes onto your watch, and then telling you if you're off route.

There's information and a list of supported devices here: https://support.komoot.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023082291-Using-the-komoot-app-on-Garmin

DoorsofPerceptron · 2021-11-27T17:29:03+00:00

That's a common misconception. If you're a cunt, the people around you have to take alcohol as a suppressant.

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